Finger-ring



(Model.)

0. STAI'GER.

FINGER RING.

No. 448,892. Patented Mar. 24, 1891.

WITNESSES.

A T TORI/E Y8 UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

CHRISTOPII STAIGER, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

FINGER-RING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,892, dated March 24, 1891.

Application filed May 10, 1890. Serial No. 351,282. (Model) T0 at whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPH STAIGER, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Finger-Rings, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a finger-ring of that class which can be separated into two individual rings and reunited again in a certain manner so as to form an attractive pu'zzle-ring; and the invention consists of a finger-ring made of two separable rings or members, one of which is provided with a loopshaped opening, while the other is provided with an arm extending from the main part of the ring and being bent at right angles, or nearly so, said bent arm interlocking with the loop-shaped part of the first ring when the bent arm extends across the loop, as will be fully described hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of my improved finger-ring. Figs. 2 and 3 are front elevations of each individual ring or member of the same, shown as detached from each other; and Figs. 4 and 5 show the rings in two different stages of connection or separation,

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A and B represent two individual rings or members, which together form my improved puzzle fingerring. The ringA is provided with a loopshaped openinga of sufficient size to permitthe insertion of the enlarged head I) of a bent arm I) of the ring B. The bent arm 1) extends from the ring 13, and is preferably bent at right angles, or nearly so, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. For connecting the two rings A and B the enlarged head I) of the bent arm I) is inserted through the loop a of the ring-A, while the rings are being held in position at right angles toward each other, as shown in Fig. l. The ring 13 is then turned while the bent arm I) is in the loop in such a manner that the bent arm is moved through the loop, as shown in Fig. 5, and until the enlarged head of the same extends across the loop, as shown in Fig. 1. For the sake of symmetry the ring or member A is also provided with a loop-shaped portion d and enlarged head d, the enlarged heads of the arm I) and loop (Z being preferably shaped in imitation of snakes heads.

For disconnecting the parts, the same operation, but in inverse order, has to be performed. In this case the ring Ais first turned on the shank of the bent arm 1') in the loop, so that the body of the ring B turns from .a position parallel to the body of the ring A into a position at right angles thereto, as shown in Fig. 4, in which position the enlarged head can be readily slipped through the loop a and detached.

hen desired, the rings can be worn separately, or they may be connected and worn together.

The ring, besides being used as a puzzle-ring, may also be used as alovers ring, each one of a pair of lovers wearing one member of the ring. The ring-shaped members can bereadily connected or detached without offering great difficulty in handling. They form when united an ornamental ring, the enlarged heads of which can be ornamented in any suitable manner by means of diamonds or other stones, while each member forms a neat finger-ring by itself.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A finger-ring formed of two separable ring-shaped members, one of which is provided with anelongated loop, while the other is provided with an arm bent at right angles, or nearly so, to the plane of the ring, said arm being adapted to be inserted through the loop so as to interlock therewith, substantially as set forth.

2. A finger-ring formed of two separable ring-shaped members A and B, the member A having an elongated loop a, while the other member has a rectangularly-bent arm Z), ex-

plane of the ring-shaped portion of said memher, said bent arm having an enlarged head, which is passed through the loop of the first member so as to interlock therewith, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing. as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHRISTOPII STAIGER.

Witnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, lllARTIN Part-1v.

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